Data Insights and Business Enablement Manager

When you join Verizon

Verizon is one of the world’s leading providers of technology and communications services, transforming the way we connect across the globe. We’re a diverse network of people driven by our shared ambition to shape a better future. Here, we have the ability to learn and grow at the speed of technology, and the space to create within every role. Together, we are moving the world forward – and you can too. Dream it. Build it. Do it here.

What you’ll be doing...

The Artificial Intelligence & Data (AI&D) Organization is an exciting new center of excellence supporting all of Verizon, reporting into the Global Network & Technology team. Our team will be a catalyst to Verizon's future in creating networks that move the world forward through the power of Artificial Intelligence & Data.

You will be a strategic thinker joining a high-profile, high-visibility team that powers analytics and strategic thinking for Verizon. You will lead a team that builds tools, analyses, and insights that informs, quantifies, and enables the visualization of data to drive business decisions for all of Verizon’s Networks.You will work with a team to create the Artificial Intelligence roadmap for GNT Planning and Engineering as well as implement and deliver use cases. You will partner with and leverage the strength of our internal Data Science center as well as with vendor partners. You will lead projects that drive digital sales and service, product recommendation andpersonalization, marketing effectiveness, channel optimization, better customer experience, and operational efficiency. You’ll work closely with a team of data scientists, big data engineers, and software developers and play a key role in developing and delivering the next generation Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning solutions that generate substantial value for the business. You will manage a pipeline of AI use cases from ideation to implementation.

• Act as a thought leader and as a forward-leaning partner with your business team to shape, prioritize, and deliver strategy for the business unit across data governance, data architecture, and AI/ML.
• Partner with the business to ensure our organization’s strategy is aligned and supportive of wider business unit strategic goals.
• Partner with technology, security, legal, and privacy to ensure a strategy for the business is also defined in the context of the overall group strategy.
• Design, develop, implement, and oversee high-end analytical/technology processes and solutions with a focus on leveraging advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence methods.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis and develop reproducible analytical approaches to meet business requirements.
• Perform exploratory and targeted data analyses using descriptive statistics and other methods.
• Present results and recommendations to senior management and business users.

Where you’ll be working:

This hybrid role will have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days as set by the manager.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Willingness to travel.
• Experience in applying statistical ideas and methods to data sets to answer business problems.
• Experience with Python, Spark, and SQL to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets.
• Experience with developing insights, presenting, and influencing strategic decisions using data.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Master’s degree in business, mathematics, statistics, analytics, engineering, computer science, or another technical discipline.
• Experience with Big Data architecture and mining for insights across various data sources.
• Experience using large data sets to find opportunities for product and process optimization and using models to test the effectiveness of different courses of action.
• Knowledge of data warehouse and data lake technology (Teradata, Hadoop, No SQL, graph DB).

Equal Employment Opportunity

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COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Verizon requires new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Verizon provides reasonable accommodations consistent with legal requirements (e.g., for medical, religious, or state law recognized reasons).